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Glow, a cybersecurity startup that uses AI agents to monitor software and developer tools, emerges from stealth with a $180M Series A at a $1.2B valuation (techcrunch.com)
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Sources: Samsung may invest up to €1B in Mistral as part of a broader round valuing it at ~€20B, after previously backing the AI startup through its venture arm (www.ft.com)
7 hours ago Samsung Startup AI

London-based robotics startup Humanoid raised a $152M Series A led by Prime Movers Lab at a $1.35B post-money valuation, bringing its total funding to $270M (www.forbes.com)
13 hours ago Startup Robot London

Docs: AI data startup Mercor had $614M in gross revenue in H1 2026, up 70% from all of 2025, with ~91% from foundation model makers like OpenAI and Anthropic (www.theinformation.com)
21 hours ago Startup AI

Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica's GPU orchestration startup SkyPilot, which aims to be neutral across hardware and cloud vendors, raised a $20M seed led by Lux (fortune.com)
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Sources: Chinese startup Moonshot AI is seeking formal approval from investors to start a Hong Kong IPO process, which could happen in as soon as six months (www.theinformation.com)
2 days ago China Hong Kong IPO Startup AI

Data infrastructure startup Cribl acquires CardinalOps, which offers AI-powered threat detection tools and had raised $40M, sources say for around $100M (www.calcalistech.com)
4 days ago Startup AI

Thira, an AI startup founded by Apptio co-founders to develop AI agents that handle back-office tasks such as IT support, raised a $21M seed led by Madrona (www.geekwire.com)
4 days ago Startup AI

Sources: AI inference chip startup Etched is raising funds at a ~$20B valuation and is raising capital at a $10B valuation in a separate round led by Sequoia (www.wsj.com)
4 days ago Startup AI

Sources: Coatue is leading a $3B investment in Databricks that values the data analytics software startup at $188B, a 40% increase from its December valuation (www.wsj.com)
4 days ago Startup

AI inference startup General Compute gets a $400M loan from tech investment firm Upper90, seemingly the first deal using inference-specific chips as collateral (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago Startup AI

Source: UK robotics startup Humanoid raised $150M in the first tranche of a Series A at a $1.2B pre-money valuation and seeks another $80M-$100M by September (www.theinformation.com)
5 days ago Startup Robot

Venture funding of fintech startups grew 22.7% YoY in H1 2026 to $28.6B globally, but deal count fell 25.7% and funding fell 17.3% vs. H2 2025's $34.6B funding (news.crunchbase.com)
6 days ago Fintech Startup

Indian AI coding startup Emergent raised a $130M Series C at a $1.5B post-money valuation, up from $300M in January, bringing its total funding raised to $230M (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago India Startup AI

Neo Security, a cybersecurity startup founded by ex-SentinelOne execs and currently in stealth, raised $50M+, after a $25M seed in 2025 led by a16z and Merlin (www.calcalistech.com)
7 days ago Startup

Sources: OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is leaving the company to launch an AI drug discovery startup, and is in talks to raise $200M at a $2B valuation (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago Startup AI

Chinese startup DFSX launches an AI chip that it claims uses a fully domestic supply chain and is built on a 14nm process, but says it can rival 4nm chips (www.wsj.com)
7 days ago China Startup AI

AI startup Reflection says it has signed a $1B+ deal to secure computing capacity from Nebius, including access to Nvidia chips, following a deal with SpaceX (www.reuters.com)
7 days ago Startup AI Nvidia SpaceX

Custom AI chip design startup TYLsemi raised $43M in early-stage funding led by Matter Venture Partners to build modular chips thanks to packaging tech advances (siliconangle.com)
7 days ago Startup AI

AI drug design startup Chai Discovery raised $400M led by Index at a $3.8B valuation, as it positions its Chai models as AI infrastructure for pharmaceuticals (www.nytimes.com)
8 days ago Startup AI

A look at AI world models, including how they work, what they can do, and what's still unsettled, as startups led by tech leaders like Yann LeCun raise billions (arstechnica.com)
8 days ago Startup AI

In the wake of China's “embodied AI” push, there's an urgency among China's 100+ humanoid startups to launch IPOs; LimX Dynamics raises $200M in a pre-IPO round (www.cnbc.com)
8 days ago China IPO Startup AI

Singapore-based and Alibaba-backed video generation startup PixVerse says it closed a Series C extension to raise $439M total for the round, valuing it at $2B+ (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago Alibaba Startup Singapore

Sources: Nous Research, the startup behind Hermes, an open-source agent and OpenClaw rival, is raising $75M+ at a $1.5B valuation led by Robot Ventures (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago Startup Robot

Munich-based defense tech startup Helsing raised a $1.8B Series E from Dragoneer, Iconiq, and others at an $18B valuation; Germany made a €270M order this year (www.bloomberg.com)
9 days ago Germany Startup Munich

Apple's lawsuit could sidetrack OpenAI's hardware aspirations for years, or possibly forever, as the startup gets into yet another controversy and messy divorce (spyglass.org)
10 days ago Startup Apple

Enterprise AI agent startup Lyzr is raising a $100M Series B at a ~$500M valuation, up from $250M in March, and says its agents ran outreach for the round (www.bloomberg.com)
12 days ago Startup AI

PitchBook: US venture funding hit $412.7B in H1 2026, up 30% on all of 2025, with AI startup funding accounting for 86%, or $355.9B; Q2 saw seven $1B+ rounds (siliconangle.com)
12 days ago Startup AI

European startups raised $24B in Q2, up 66% YoY and the strongest quarter in four years; UK startups raised $10.4B, above Germany's $3.2B, and France's $2.4B (news.crunchbase.com)
12 days ago Germany France Europe Startup

Enterprise AI agent startup Lyzr is raising a $100M Series B at a ~$500M valuation, up from $250M in a Series A in 2026, and says agents wrote investment memos (www.bloomberg.com)
12 days ago Startup AI

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